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Roger Vincent @rogervincent

Journalist covering commercial real estate for the Los Angeles Times.

Joined June 2008
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Downtown L.A. businesses and residents are frustrated with conditions there and are begging for more political support for the neighbhorhood. latimes.com/business/story/2…

Downtown L.A. businesses are in crisis. Owners want politicians to deal with it

Businesses want the mayoral candidates to deal with downtown’s entrenched troubles.

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Downtown L.A. wants San Francisco’s pop-up secret to get shoppers back -- help small businesses open in vacant storefronts. latimes.com/business/story/2…

Downtown L.A. wants San Francisco’s pop-up secret to get shoppers back

DTLA needs S.F.’s retail resuscitation secret: subsidized pop-ups

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Exotic make-drugs-in-space startup Varda Space Industries snags former Mattel plant in El Segundo latimes.com/business/story/2…

Startup Varda Space Industries snags former Mattel plant in El Segundo

Varda Space Industries will occupy a former Mattel facility in El Segundo, giving it additional capacity to manufacture spacecraft at scale.

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Buyer for Oceanwide Plaza's infamous graffitied towers emerges -- developer Kalki P. Chaudhuri, who is also building a hotel next to SoFi Stadium latimes.com/business/story/2…

Buyer for Oceanwide Plaza's infamous graffitied towers emerges

The proposed buyer of the L.A. project in bankruptcy proceedings is a partnership led Kali P. Chaudhuri, whose firm owns properties in California and India.

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L.A. will gets its first Ikea, coming to the Helms Bakery design complex on the edge of Culver City. Ikea will fill space left by HD Buttercup. latimes.com/business/story/2…

A sprawling Culver City space will soon be home to Ikea

The furniture giant known for "Billy" bookcases and Swedish meatballs will occupy part of the old Helms Bakery building.

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Anduril signs huge lease in Long Beach for a new campus next to the airport. latimes.com/business/story/2…

Anduril to invest another $1 billion in California with new Long Beach campus

Anduril to invest another $1 billion in California with new Long Beach campus

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Long-shuttered St. Vincent Medical Center near downtown will be converted to serve the homeless. latimes.com/california/story…

Shuttered St. Vincent Medical Center to become homeless service campus

Private investors purchased the shuttered St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles and are partnering with nonprofits and government to turn the campus into a one-stop shop for homeless people to...

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Downtown L.A.'s struggle is overstated and fixable, says the mogul who built the Grand -- Bill Witte retires after leading Related California for decades. latimes.com/business/story/2…

Downtown L.A.'s struggle is overstated and fixable, says the mogul who built the Grand

Real estate mogul leaving post critiques L.A.’s development challenges

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Allegedly using grant funds to pay their Amex bills: DOJ accuses real estate executives of fraud in homeless funding latimes.com/california/story…

DOJ accuses real estate executives of fraud in homeless funding

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday charged two real estate executives with defrauding California’s Homekey program, allegedly misappropriating millions meant for homeless housing.

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Think nothing big got built in Los Angeles during the Depression? These 10 buildings tell the story of L.A.'s monumental 1930s, year by year latimes.com/travel/list/1930…

These 10 buildings tell the story of L.A.'s monumental 1930s, year by year

Amid the stress of economic collapse, the city built some of its greatest architectural gems: the jaw-dropping Pantages Theatre, the hilltop Griffith Observatory, the grand Union Station and more.

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Gang intervention program Homeboy Industries is raising money for a big buildout of its downtown campus latimes.com/business/story/2…

'Supplier of hope': Homeboy Industries plans $100-million expansion in downtown L.A.

Gang rehabilitation program Homeboy Industries announces major expansion near Men's Central Jail in Los Angeles.

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Not long ago, I didn't believe I would ever ride in a self-driving taxi on the streets. Now they're looking for air taxi landing sites. latimes.com/business/story/2…

Flying taxis are coming to L.A. This developer is already picking places to land them

The hunt is on for flying taxi landing sites.

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Almost no one is building new apartments in Los Angeles. A big reason is that institutional investors have redlined the city, developers say. latimes.com/business/story/2…

Almost no one is building new apartments in Los Angeles. Here's why

The supply of fresh rental units, which make up the bulk of new housing in Los Angeles, is petering out despite robust demand.

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Kali Hotel at SoFi Stadium has topped out and will be ready for the next Super Bowl in L.A. latimes.com/business/story/2…
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The bankruptcy sale of notorious Oceanwide Plaza in #dtla keeps dragging on, and a local architect has an idea about how to wrap the buildings and cover the graffiti latimes.com/business/story/2…

Graffiti-tarnished towers in downtown L.A. remain in limbo

The long-running bankruptcy sale of downtown Los Angeles' most spectacular eyesore drags on with no clear end in sight.

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Civic leaders are getting behind a push to get more offices converted to housing that might include tax breaks for developers. latimes.com/business/story/2…

A second act for empty office space? How skyscrapers in downtown L.A. could ease the housing crisis

With downtown's office rental market mired in high vacancies and falling values, stakeholders are clamoring for more city support to convert high-rises to housing that would help address the city's...

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Hollywood soundstage operators struggling with vacancies have high hopes the new state tax credits will help. latimes.com/business/story/2…

Hollywood soundstage operators are reeling. Will state tax credits help?

Soundstages are looking for ways to drum up business amid the Hollywood cooldown.

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Tinder co-founder buys Walk of Fame property in Hollywood as the Mateen brothers pick up more high-profile real estate. latimes.com/business/story/2…

Tinder co-founder buys Walk of Fame property in Hollywood

Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen has invested in Hollywood with the $69-million purchase of retail property near the legendary TCL Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard.

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State sues SoCal real estate tycoon, alleging widespread tenant exploitation latimes.com/homeless-housing…

State sues SoCal real estate tycoon, alleging widespread tenant exploitation

Following a three-year investigation, California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit Tuesday against SoCal landlord Mike Nijjar, accusing him of habitually violating habitability, tenant protection...

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Olympics broadcast center and movie studio coming to Hollywood Park as Rams owner Stan Kroenke's campus in Inglewood grows. latimes.com/business/story/2…

Olympics broadcast center and movie studio coming to Hollywood Park

Rams owner Stan Kroenke will build a movie studio next to SoFi Stadium in Inglewood that will serve as the international broadcast center for the 2028 Olympic Games.

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